Bhutan’s move to levy sustainable development fee (SDF) on Indian, Bangladeshi and Maldivian tourists has left hundreds of traders and travellers from Assam, who frequently visit the Himalayan kingd...

Nature’s soothing touch, adventure, food and entertainment beckon tourists to a five-day festival at the picturesque Bhairabkunda, located at the Himalayan foothills at the trijunction of Assam, Aru...

Squatters on a one-hectare plot earmarked to build a bus terminus and a shopping complex at Chamurchi, one of the three points to enter Bhutan from Bengal, demonstrated under Trinamul’s banner on Su...

Not for nothing was Japan called the Britain of the East. Emperor Hirohito’s phlegmatic “The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage” broadcast on August 15, 1945 famo...

The tiger skin seized from two Bhutanese nationals in Alipurduar last Tuesday had been on the for-sale list of suspected poachers for several months, forest officials said. The special task force of ...

The management of a tea estate in Alipurduar has announced suspension of work following disagreements over bonus with the workers.The Sunday night action by the Toorsa Tea Garden in Kalchini block has...

One of the five takins brought to the Darjeeling zoo from Berlin has died from stomach infection.Rajendra Jakher, the director of the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, said: “Ten-month-old ma...

 A Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Army crashed in eastern Bhutan on Friday afternoon, killing both the pilots, official sources said.The single-engine helicopter was on its way from Khirmu in A...

A herd of 200 wild elephants, that came down from the India-Bhutan border hills here, have entered villages, including Orangajuli, Nonoipara, Segunbari and Bholatar over for the past fortnight, damagi...

A press note on the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict issued by the Indian embassy in Bhutan has seeped out to social media, baring before everyone the Narendra Modi government’s worry over how the ...